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Home Dictionary Name: interminableInterminable
Without termination admitting no limit boundless endless wearisomely protracted as interminable space or duration interminable sufferings an interminable sermon...
Interminated
Interminable interminate endless unending...
Interminate
Endless as interminate sleep...
Funds, public
Funds, public, the name given to the public funded debt due by Government. The practice of borrow-ing money to defray a part of the war expenditure began, with us, in the reign of William III. In the infancy of the practice it was customary to borrow upon the security of some tax, or portion of a tax, set apart as a fund for discharging the principal and interest of the sum borrowed. This discharge was rarely effected. The public exigencies still continuing, the loans were continued, or the taxes again mortgaged for fresh ones. At length the practice of borrowing for a fixed period, or, as it is called, upon terminable annuities, was abandoned, and loans made upon interminable annuities, or until it might be convenient for the Government to pay off the principal. Such loans are called Funded Debt, or 'The Funds'; loans for a fixed period are said to be 'Unfunded'.In the beginning of the funding system the term 'fund' meant the taxes or funds appropriated to the discharge of the princip...
Endless
Without end having no end or conclusion perpetual interminable applied to length and to duration as an endless line endless time endless bliss endless praise endless clamor...
Eterminable
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Illimited
Not limited interminable...
Interminableness
The state of being endless...
Interminably
Without end or limit...
Intermination
A menace or threat...
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